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- Title
Social Support, Sense of Coherence, and Self-Management among Hemodialysis Patients.
- Authors
Song, Yuan-yuan; Chen, Lin; Wang, Wen-xiu; Yang, Dong-ju; Jiang, Xiao-lian
- Abstract
Self-management is essential for patients who require regular hemodialysis treatment. This study aimed to explore the relationships between social support, sense of coherence (SOC), and self-management in hemodialysis patients and to examine whether SOC plays a mediating role. In a cross-sectional study, 402 hemodialysis patients from four tertiary hospitals were recruited. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Social support, SOC, and self-management were significantly correlated with each other. The proposed model provided a good fit to the data. Social support had a direct effect on self-management and SOC, partially mediated the effect of social support on self-management (β = 0.248, p = 0.001). Social support and SOC explained 69% of the variance in self-management. Our findings indicate that health care providers can enhance social support with an emphasis on strengthening SOC strategies to better improve self-management in hemodialysis patients.
- Subjects
CHINA; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; SOCIAL support; SCIENTIFIC observation; CONFIDENCE intervals; SELF-management (Psychology); SELF-perception; CROSS-sectional method; TERTIARY care; CRONBACH'S alpha; SCALE analysis (Psychology); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2022, Vol 44, Issue 4, p367
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0193945921996648